It’s Win-Win for the Cornwall Major Midget “B” Colts
Michels) and Josh Hodgson
(assisted by Brandon Mullin and
Cameron Michels.)

By H. Armstrong

The Cornwall major midget “B”
Colts met the South Dundas Lions
on the ice at the Benson Centre
on Sunday, December 9th, and
the winner was the Agape Centre.
In exchange for a gift of a nonperishable food item, hockey fans
were given a ticket to the game and
a chance to be part of a number of
draws that took place over the course
of the evening.
Last year head coach Raymond
Landry started what he hopes to
make an annual event. “I started
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The Cornwall Major Midget B Colts and the South Dundas Lions are all
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Photo by H. Armstrong

group. This would be our second
year,” said Landry. According to
Landry, last year’s food drive fed
seven families.

the ﬁfty dollar prize. Kim Dazé,
who won the second period draw,
also missed the net and a prize of
one hundred dollars.

For Cornwall player Brian Landry
this is his second year doing the
food drive. He said giving back
beneﬁts the team. “We are trying to
give back to the community,” said
Landry. “It shows them that we are
a part of a community, there are less
fortunate people and it bonds us too.
We go to the next practice and talk
about how many people came out,
how much food we raised.”

It was also a pretty good game
too and the Colts generosity was
rewarded with 7-3 victory.

Besides contributing to a good
cause, spectators had a chance at
shooting a puck at the net for a cash
prize. First period ticket winner
Jordan Millward missed the net and

Maxime Paquette scored a hat trick
for the Colts while Ryan Thomas
scored twice, Alex Primeau-Wilson
had a short-handed goal while Kris
Villeneuve managed an assist on a
Power-play goal. Brock Dazé had
three assists, while Brian Landry
had two.

Alyssa Blais, executive director
of the Agapè Center, was present
for the food for ticket exchange.
She said the Agapè Center received
over 500 pounds of food from the
food drive. “Sitting at the Benson
Centre, watching players drop off
food items for the Agapè Centre was
a heart-warming experience,” said
Blais. “We greatly appreciate the
team effort and know that the food
donated will go to many families in
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Major Peewee AA Rapids Undefeated in Rochester
By Bill Woodside

The Major Peewee Seaway Valley
AA Rapids recently returned from a
successful tournament in Rochester
held November 23-25 and returned
with the gold.
The Rapids opened the tournament
on Friday vs. the Rochester
Grizzlies. Despite allowing an
early goal, they stormed back with
eight unanswered to defeat one of
the host teams 8-1. Ben Paul scored
3 times, Jordan Canham and Joseph
Samson each had 2 goals with Eric
Ouellette adding one. Canham
led the way with 3 assists, Brant
Woodside had 2 assists, with 1
assist each going to Sam Fitzgerald
and Ethan Mulhearn.
Their second game was played vs.
the Rideau-St. Lawrence Kings and
after playing to a 2-2 tie after two
periods, the Rapids stormed out in
the third taking control and winning
7-2 with Samson and Canham each
scoring 3 times and Mulhearn
adding one. Taran Fiacco and
Mulhearn led the way with 2 assists
each with singles going to Paul,
Ben Dirven, and Tyler Eldridge.
Seaway played 1 game on
Saturday defeating the Grundy
Senators 4-1 with gaols scored by
Evan Huntley, Canham, Samson,
and Eldridge. Assists went to
Mathieu Giroux, Landon Fraser,

The Major Peewee Seaway Valley AA Rapids celebrate after going undefeated and winning the gold medal
at a Rochester tournament held November 23-25.
Sublmitted photo

Wade Moak, and Mulhearn.
In the Semiﬁnals on Sunday, the
Rapids once again faced the Grundy
Senators and had little trouble this
time winning 6-1.
Ryan Levis
led the way scoring twice with his
new stick, Canham scored twice
with singles to Mulhearn and
Giroux. Moak had 2 assists, as
did Mulhearn, Paul, and Canham.
Woodside added 1 assist.

The Rapids faced their toughest
test in the Finals, bringing home
the gold with a 4-0 victory over
the Skyland Kings. Huntley potted
two goals with his new stick, with
singles going to Paul and Canham.
Mulhearn had two assists with
Ouellette and Moak adding singles.
Aidan Lamothe and Dawson
Irving provided solid goaltending
throughout the tournament with

Lamothe earning the shutout in
the Finals. Congratulations to the
Rapids on a real team victory as
every player contributed with at
least a point each.
The coaching staff is rounded
out with Mike Mulhearn as Head
Coach, Kenny Gallant and Mike
Samson as Assistants, Gus Giroux
as Trainer and Paul Huntley as
Manager.

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MURPHY’S SPORTS LAW
By David Murphy

Here’s a smattering of 15-0 (7 KO) on the line as a co-main event
sports thoughts heading on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. A pretty
into the Christmas season. good gathering from Cornwall and area is
expected to make the three-hour drive to see
Brampton is losing its OHL the match. If you can’t, Friday Night Fights
team to North Bay. While are usually replayed in Canada. “Lightning”
it won’t bring back the Luis is about to take the next step to stardom
Centennials (team plans on and we can say “we knew him when”.
keeping the Battalion moniker), it does bring
the top junior hockey league back to a place The Cornwall River Kings are faring quite
it never should’ve left. The Battalion had a well at the gate and entertaining even the
small but very loyal following but after more doubters who are dwindling in number.
than a decade of poor attendance despite some Coach Wagar’s got his team well-tuned
great teams and talent, ownership had enough and ready for a strong playoff run. Crowds
and decided to be in the money making (or between 2,600 and 3,500 are common place
at least break even) hockey business. Matt on Saturday night’s at the Ed Lumley Arena
Duchene (whose family roots on his mom’s and they’ll likely grow when that playoff
side are in Cornwall) is among the talented drive hits full stride.
players showcased by the Battalion. Don’t
hold your breath Cornwall OHL fans, there’s Free plug time. I’m told Sports Energy TV is
no word of a return to the City With a World a hit on TV Cogeco. It airs Thursday nights
at 7 p.m. and features some local sports
of Possibilities anytime soon.
personalities. One recent show showcased the
Tony Luis’ next boxing match is on Friday, lighter, sports themed sides of two long-time
January 25th at Turning Stone Casino in politicians in MPP Jim McDonell and Mayor
Verona, (near Syracuse) New York. His Bob Kilger. One was a goalie (McDonell)
opponent is 20-3 and a former US National and one was a defenceman (Kilger) all we
Golden Gloves Boxing Champ. Luis puts his need is to get MP Guy Lauzon (a forward) on

It’s easy to find excuses...
“The handle
on your reclinder
does not qualify
as an exercise
machine.”

a show and we’ll have all three zones covered.
Other guests included Kirby Camplin, Thom
Racine, Tony Luis, Shawna Mecteau, Scott
Rogers, Jorge Luis and Rodney Wilson.
Speaking of Wilson, congrats on dropping
more than 50 pounds as part of a weight loss
competition at Quest Fitness. Do you want a
good sports read? Check out Piper’s Points
(after you’ve read this edition of Sports
Energy of course).
And ﬁnally, local football programs were
chest pumping during this year’s Vanier Cup
in Toronto (Grey Cup weekend). Former
SJCSS and Holy Trinity stars Sean Smith
and Kevin Aleinik brought local ﬂavor to
the nationally televised game – they are
both members of the McMaster Marauders.
Wildcat Alumni Jason Lauzon -Seguin and
Jean Phillipe Begin played for Laval. Not
too shabby to have four players in a national
championship game from an ever growing
local program.
Merry Christmas to all and until the New
Year, drive safe, play safe and enjoy the
season.

Fear - Some people have an image of exercise as evil. They remember that one workout in college where they were sore

for days and can’t possibly conceive of going through that again. The truth is delayed onset muscle soreness is uncomfortable
but if you start off slowly you won’t experience extreme discomfort. Also, if you stick with a program, the soreness is less
and less with each workout. Another fear is feeling like a fish out of water at the gym. Maybe the attire at the gym is itself
intimidating - good news, the days of the thong on the outside of the tights, the headband and leg-warmers are gone. We now
wear regular shorts and t-shirts.
No Time - This is great. I will use my mom as an example of how we all do have time. My Mom will say, as many do, “I
cannot fit in the time to exercise, I do have a job and a life”. Here is the truth of it, she spends her free time either surfing on
the net or she is watching television. There is the time. I am not saying give up your passions, incorporate exercise into them.
For example, she can be on a stationary bike and watch television. Can’t find the time? Email me and I can give you some home
workouts.
Negative Image of Exercise - Think all exercise is difficult? No one says you have to pick the most complicated routine
or machine to start with. Exercise can be as fundamental as taking a walk three times a week around your neighborhood. There
is nothing to fear except the repercussions of NOT exercising.
Slow Results - I know, you want a toned, fit or at least changed body overnight but the truth is it takes time. It also
depends on how often you work out, how well you stick to your healthy eating plan and what type of exercise you do. On
average, it takes about six weeks to see any results.
No Motivation - Motivation, like loneliness, can be combated with having a partner. You will be more likely to stick to a
routine because you are motivated by your partner. Another motivation might be setting a realistic goal. “I will lose 100 pounds
in 2 months” is not a realistic goal. I will exercise 4 times this week is an attainable goal and one you will work towards.
Too...Hot, cold, rainy, sunny, hazy - If you can’t make the commitment to yourself because you are too busy making
excuses, perhaps you need to realize that there will always ne excuses but your health is not guaranteed. You Matter!
I Hate to Exercise - Well, at least this one is honest; the dreaded “E” word, exercise. This will be the hardest to
overcome. Like anything if you do not make the decision to quit smoking, moderate drinking, eat properly or exercise, you will
not succeed. Begin with an activity you feel you will enjoy. At least you are giving yourself a chance. Don’t give up for at least
6 weeks and see if perhaps that helps you start a pattern.
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Volunteers Alissa Primeau and Brianna Ladouceur exchange nonperishable food for a chance to shoot on the net. Alyssa Blais, Executive
Director of the Agape Centre watches all food being donated from the
Cornwall Major Midget Charity Food Drive.
Photo by H. Armstrong

Alyssa Blais Executive Director of the Agape Centre and volunteers
Brianna Ladouceur and Alissa Primeau are all smiles as they see all
the food collected from the Cornwall Major Midget Charity Food Drive.

Photo by H. Armstrong

National Juvenile Broomball Championship
comes to Cornwall
By H. Armstrong

The 2013 National Juvenile
Broomball Championships will be
played in Cornwall on April 2 – 6,
2013. The Seaway Valley Devils
and the Ottawa Valley Gamblers,
(the boys’ team) will host the
championships at the Benson
Centre. The eight girls’ juvenile
teams and 10 boys’ juvenile teams
will be arriving in Cornwall from
Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Ontario. According to organizer
Rita Robertson, who’s daughter
Lauren plays on the Seaway Valley
Devils, a lot of hard work was
necessary to bring the championship
to Cornwall, and local teams will be
well represented.
The teams consist of players
between 15 to 19 years of age.
The two host teams and the two
returning champions are guaranteed
to play. The other Ontario teams
must qualify during a tournament
in Barrie during November. “The
four local teams who are deﬁnitely
coming are, the Seaway Valley
Devils, the Eastern Thunder, Sting,
and the Ottawa Valley Gamblers,”
said Robertson.
The National Juvenile Broomball
Championships location is rotated
between the four participating

provinces. “Each province can
bid to host,” said Robertson. “A
lot of people really vied to push
to get the bid for Cornwall. Ellen
McNaughton, she was the one that
really spearheaded it all.”
Robertson explained the teams
are really excited to have the home
town advantage. “We have very
strong community support,” she
said.

“Broomball is a fairly feasible
sport,” she continued, “There is less
equipment.” It also draws people
from the outlying areas. “From the
smaller town leagues players are
picked to play in elite leagues which
make up these juvenile teams, “she
said.
The 2013 National Juvenile
Broomball Championship expects
to bring into Cornwall 1,000 people
between players, parents and
spectators. Because the National
Juvenile Broomball Championship
Organization Committee needs
to raise all the money for the
tournament costs, which include
ice time, MVP awards and All
Star awards, they are looking for
sponsorship.
If you are interested in sponsorship

Local
businessmen,
Perry
Montgomery and Luc PrudHomme,
have recently become the newest
addition to Integral Hockey Stick
Repair, servicing Cornwall and
Eastern Ontario area. The two have
teamed up with Integral Hockey
to provide the latest in composite
hockey stick repair technology for

teams, parents, and players alike.
The repair process, developed
by Canadian business owner and
founder of Integral Hockey Inc.,
Randy Langille of Port Alberni, BC,
is claiming to be the leading-edge
repair system in the industry.
Since the arrival of composite repair
services, stick owners have had to
settle for dealing with substantial loss
of ﬂexibility in their repaired sticks –

typically affecting several inches on
either side of the break, along with a
considerable increase in weight.
The Integral Hockey repair process
involves taking these broken sticks
and repairing them by applying true
composite aerospace technology with
the end result being - no noticeable
change in respect to weight, ﬂex,
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“We have taken a very real problem,

solved it with the most high-tech
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Who is That Person Behind the Bench?
By Richard Waldroff

A couple of months back I talked about the Initiation Program, a mandatory requirement for all
on ice instructors to have completed the Intro Coach program. At that time I eluded to other such
requirements for all coaches working with children. Here are some of the levels that exist, and
who they are designed for:
Coach Stream - for all house leagues (Recreational Head Coaches, and Competitive (Rep)
Assistant Coaches.
Development 1 – for all Competitive (Rep) Head coaches
Development 2 – is currently recognized as a Professional Development Course
High Performance 1 – for all Coaches interested in Coaching at the National Level
High Performance 2 – for all Coaches interested in Coaching at an International Level
You might be reading this and are wondering what does this all mean for your child? Well, if
your child is playing at the minor or female hockey levels your Coach must have taken the Intro
Coach, Coach Stream or Development 1 course, depending on the level they are coaching at.
Any sports program offered to youth must come with qualiﬁed instructors. It should be no
different than our educational system; certain formal training needs to be taken and employed. I
often hear folks say “He played the game for years, what more is needed?” Well, look around you what do you see? You see change,
the only real constant in life. We all want the best for our children: the best teachers, the best toys, and the best of everything both
material and spiritual. Most of us don’t believe the old adage that if it was good enough for me, it will be good enough for them.
You cannot have the best and at the same time remain with the same “OLD” past practices.
The players, their parents, and caregivers give a great deal of time, effort and money in order to learn our national sport. It is our
hockey administrators’ responsibility to ensure that only qualiﬁed people meet them at the rink.
Lockout?
Well our area has been blessed with more hockey than one could have imagined. Minor games in every rink, EOJHL (Glens,
Lions, Rebels, Wolves) Colts Junior, River Kings, and then an evening with locked out NHL players stepping on the ice for a good
cause. Some folks may be hurting without the NHL, but I think we are doing okay.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

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- The “Team” has just completed Issue # 5 and once again I
would like to thank Lynn (Graphic Design), Terry (Editorial),
Bernadette (Web Site), the writers and editorial contributors,
our distribution locations, our advertisers and of course the
kid’s and people who make our stories possible. I hope you
enjoy issue # 5.
- I had the opportunity to accompany Terry Tinkess when he
interviewed Orval Tessier for a story in this
months edition of the Games are over. We visited with Orval
for over two and a half hours. The time ﬂew by as we sat and
talked about Orval’s playing and coaching career. I had a great
time, thanks Orval (and Terry)
- I have to welcome back President Brian Caskenette to
CMHA. We missed you in your absence.
- Speaking of CMHA, Tournament Chair Debbie Caskenette
has been hard at work planning the 51st edition of the CMHA
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like over 60 teams will once again participate at the Bantam
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- The 7th edition of the Pizza Hut Adult Hockey Tournament
will be running from Jan 11th to 13th 2013. Thumbs up to
organizer Bill Dillabough on a job well done. For tournament
information contact pizzahut.cornwall@pppoe.ca
- It’s also that time of year when Big Ben Ski Hill Manager
Jack Ruest and his staff are busy making snow for all the local
skiers and snowboarders. The hill is a great facility right here in
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- Congrat’s to Major Midget coach Ray Landry and Manager
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- Whistle Stops would highly recommend taking in a Major
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- Our condolences to the family of the late Ron Casselman.
Ron was the owner and GM of the Morrisburg Lions Jr B Hockey
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always enjoyed my conversations with him over the years.
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Black Win A Flag Football Record

Team Black made it into the record books by winning the 2012 Remington’s Men’s Flag Football League Championship and by ﬁnishing the
Photo by H. Armstrong
season 19-0.

By H. Armstrong
The Remington’s Men’s Flag
Football League Championship
Game at Holy Trinity pitted Black
against last year’s champions, Hype.
A new king was crowned as Black
managed a 24 to 13 victory, earning
them a place in record books in the
process, by going undefeated over
the entire season (19-0.) According to
Jonathan Campeau, league president,
it was an impressive record. “They
(Black) are ﬁrst team in league’s 37
year history to remain undefeated
the whole season,” said Campeau.
Richard Roy

Hype scored ﬁrst as quarterback
Tony Joseph hooked up with Andrew
Gilmore for a 32-yard touchdown
strike, making it 6-0.
Team Black responded with a
touchdown off a Rob Cholette
halfback toss to wide receiver
Brandon Swamp, making it 7-6.
The seesaw battle continued as
Hype’s Steve Tillaart scored on a 68yard touchdown catch from Joseph.
With the score 13-7, Black’s
quarterback,
Kevin
Larin
orchestrated a great two-minute
drive, culminating with a 26-yard
touchdown strike to Trevor Shayler

in the end zone.
Black had a marginal lead at half
with a score of 14 to 13
During the second half Black’s
defense took over with three
interceptions by Cholete while Rob
Beckstead earning three sacks for the
day, to hold Hype off the scoreboard
the rest of the game.
Steph Lebrun hit a 28-yard ﬁeld
goal and Larin threw a 63-yard
touchdown pass to Diggs Thompson
for the ﬁnal score of the day.
Playoff MVP honours went to
Larin, while offensive Playoff MVP
went to Hype’s Tillaart and defensive

playoff MVP went to Cholette.
After the championship game,
Mike Piche, owner of Remington’s
Bar & Grill hosted the awards
banquet for the Remington’s Men’s
Flag Football League. Honoured
for 2012 season were Kevin Larin
as the season MVP, Alex Gearey
of Pigskins for offensive player
of the year, Brandon Swamp was
defensive player of the year, Dimitri
Fotenas of General Splatters was
honoured as rookie of the year and
Jordan Maheu of General Splatters
was named sportsman of the year.

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Fitness Programs at the Benson Centre
The New Year is a common time to make resolutions. Youth Tennis Lessons
If one of your personal goals for 2013 is to maintain or achieve a better
ﬁtness level, the City of Cornwall may be able to help you follow through
with your ﬁtness resolution. Through registration at the Benson Centre
and/or Aquatic Centre, the City of Cornwall is offering a variety of ﬁtness
and recreation programs for people of all ages.
List of Fitness and Recreation Programs
ZumbAtomic For Kids
Zumba Sentao
Stroller Babes Fitness For Moms
Zumba Gold
and Babies
Aqua Fitness
Zumba Toning with Idalia Drums Swimming Programs
Alive Cardio
Public Skating
Lunch Time Boot Camp
Stick & Puck Skates
Kick Boxing Cardio
For full details on any of the above
Hoop It! Hula Hoop Fitness
ﬁtness programs, please visit our
Zumba with Adele
website www.cornwall.ca

Outdoor Rinks

Outdoor rinks provide valuable recreation and leisure opportunities
for people of all ages. The Department of Planning, Parks & Recreation
operate a number of outdoor rinks throughout the community. We are
fortunate to have a number of outdoor rinks which are operated by
community minded volunteers. Weather conditions and the availability
of volunteers play an important role in the quality of outdoor rinks. For
information on volunteering at any of our outdoor rinks, please call Lorne
Taillon at 613-938-9898 ext. 2.
City of Cornwall Outdoor Rink Locations
• Alexander Park • Broadview Park • Dover Heights Park • Gallinger
Park • Grant Park • King George Park • Lamoureux Park • Optimist
Park • Reg Campbell Park • Terry Fox Park

Starting January 19th our new session of youth tennis lessons begins for
children between the ages of 5 and 16 years. Join instructor Drew Poirier
as he teaches players court etiquette and stroke techniques including
forehand, backhand, serve, and volley. Through skills and game play,
this course will help improve the players’ tennis ability and focus on
sportsmanship and having fun. Our lessons take place on Saturdays at
the Benson Centre. Register early as this program does ﬁll up quickly.

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Need more ice time? Work on the fundamentals of hockey and improve
your skills. The Stick & Puck program is designed to enable skaters in
full hockey gear, the opportunity to work on passing, puck control and
skating drills. An adult or coach must accompany all youth on the ice
(Adult to Child ratio: 1 to 2). Youth ages 5 - 14. Full hockey equipment
is mandatory for all youth, helmets mandatory for adults. Stick & Puck
Family Skate Schedule and Fees can be found at www.cornwall.ca.

New! Adult Badminton Program

This is an invitation to all badminton players to join us for our adult
badminton program on Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m. at the Benson
Centre. We are offering an 8 week program starting Friday January 11th,
2013. The program goal is strictly for enjoyment. It will also provide
participants with the opportunity to play games with other participants
of varying skills. Four courts will be set-up each week. Please Note: No
instruction is provided and birdies and racquets are required. Registration
is available at the Benson Centre for the full 8 weeks at $27.12, or if
space permits a drop-in rate of $5.65 per player. For more information
please visit the website at www.cornwall.ca

District Eight Sends Two Hockey Teams to Winter Games
By Tom Butkovich

Cornwall swept both games
in District Eight, 55 and up
hockey play downs to advance
to the Ontario Senior Winter
Games. The games will be
held in Huntsville, Ontario
from February 26-28, 2013.
In the opening game,
played on November 17 at
the Cornwall Civic Complex,
Cornwall defeated Long
Sault 8-3 with Paul Seguin
chipping in with two goals.

On November 26, in
Alexandria,
Cornwall
defeated the host team
Alexandria
6-1.
Brian
Reasbeck led the charge with
a hat trick. Dave Alguire was
solid in net for both games.
In the 65 and over hockey
division, Morrisburg, with
Les McAllister once again
as G.M. and player, will
represent District Eight.
In qualifying, they were
unopposed.

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and tradition prevail. The gi that we
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In 1922 “the father of modern
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founder of Judo, to come to Japan
to demonstrate his sport. This
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the Kodakan- Japans premier
Judo training hall-was a highly
anticipated event, being attended
by educators, politicians, and
monarchy. Realizing that Mr.
Funakoshi was about to do his
presentation in street clothes, Mr.
Kano quickly presented him with
a Judo gi to wear, explaining to
him that the Japanese people, being
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culture. The homes had wooden
ﬂoors, tables and chairs were
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in Japan and teach karate, which
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school curriculum by the board of
education. The gi from this point
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karate. Mr. Funakoshi had the
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it was a very good year, and they
took time recently to celebrate at
the AERSO (Association Equestre
Region Sud Ouest) awards banquet
night in Montreal. Many riders
brought home ribbons and trophies
to showcase their success over the
past year.

Among the awards were ﬁve gold
medals. Cameron Gravelle brought
home the gold medal for the Large
Pony division, as well as a bronze
medal in B Equitation.
Kaylee Arsenault earned gold in
the C Equitation division, on top
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The labour problems between the NHL players association and the league continue onward with no
end in sight. About two and a half months of the regular season has been lost.

At this point, have you as fans moved on and found other things to occupy your time, or are
you still really missing the NHL game?
Jorge Luis

I have a lot to occupy my time, but when I am home on the weekend I do enjoy a good hockey game.
This is a ﬁght between millionaires and billionaires and no one feels sorry for these guys. I will say
I have no problem with the players making money, nor do I have a problem with the owners making
money. However, we always adapt and it gives people and sport fans a chance to appreciate local live
hockey and other sports like my sport, boxing. Boxing is the sport all other sports aspire to. Lately
there have been some good cards on TSN as a result of the NHL lockout, so sport fans tune in. Lack
of exposure has, in my opinion helped hinder boxing’s appeal to sport fans and young kids. If they
see it on TV they might get interested and look for a local club and become more active. So stay out
for this season NHL, you’re doing the local arenas and other sports a favour.

Sean Boulerice

The fall is a very busy time for me, getting back into my teaching routine, coaching a varsity golf
team, coaching two varsity hockey teams, refereeing minor hockey and still trying to ﬁnd good quality
family time. Needless to say, there are not too many weekday games that I can sit down and even
watch a period of. If I had to say I missed the NHL, it would be on Saturday evenings. That is the one
night that I had the time to relax and sit by the ﬁreplace and watch a game (or two).
I feel that many people have supplemented the NHL game with other levels of hockey. The Cornwall
River Kings provide a nice brand of entertainment and I have found myself venturing over to the
Complex on the odd Saturday night. The Cornwall Colts and the CCHL are another reputable
alternative.
The last time the Toronto Argonauts won the Grey Cup (before this year) was 2004 and that was the
year that an entire NHL season was washed away due to labour problems. Maybe it’s a good thing
that we have so many options right out our back door!

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Hockey fans, for the most part have reluctantly accepted the lockout for what it is, and await the
inevitable settlement, whenever that may be. In the meantime there is no shortage of hockey to follow.
Since the lost season of 04-05, the advances in technology have made it easier for fans to track the
development of their favorite NHL teams prospects, playing in the AHL, Europe, and the CHL.
Hockey fans in the Cornwall area are quite fortunate to have the River Kings and the Colts to support.
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The Games Are Over, The Memories Live On

It’s Funny Where Life Can Take You: Orval Tessier
By Terry Tinkess

Who would think that a beer salesman with
community college coaching experience could
go on to earn two Stanley Cup rings and earn
coach of the year honours along with winning
the Memorial Cup and an American Hockey
League championship? The man himself, Orval
Tessier, says even he has a hard time believing
it. He describes getting the job as the Cornwall
Royals coach got it all started.
“It was a ﬂuke,” says Tessier. “We were
having a few beers at the Glendale (Tavern)
and Norm (Baril) was there and Jimmy (Larin)
was there and Luc (Emard) was there and there
was a whole bunch of us and they ask me, why
don’t I coach the team?
“I said, ‘Are you crazy?’”

Apparently the Royals owners (there were
six) saw something in Tessier they liked. Or
maybe they felt that starting with a last place
team, the only direction he could go was up.

“Really, we had six players, seven players
coming back from a team that ﬁnished dead
last,” says Tessier. “If it wouldn’t have been for
Gordie Wood in Kingston…I knew that there
was a good batch of midget players in Kingston,
but it was a matter of getting to them, but he
knew them all.”
Tessier learned that during the summer some
of the NHL players that lived in the Kingston
area rented the ice along with some of the
midget players, so he went up for look. It was
a worthwhile trip, and he liked what he saw.
“Gary Macgregor was on the ice, Kevin Tracey
was on the ice, Bob Murray was on the ice
and Tom Wynne was on the ice,” says Tessier.
All four became part of the Royals 1971-1972
Memorial Cup winning team.
“The key was Gary Macgregor,” says Tessier.
“I talked to Bob Murray and he said that where
Gary was going to go, the rest of the boys were
going to go. We convinced Macgregor to come
to Cornwall, and it wasn’t easy, and the rest
followed.
“One was drafted in the ﬁrst round
(Macgregor), Bobby Murray played 15 years
in the NHL (currently the vice-president and
general manager for the Anaheim Ducks),
and Kevin Tracey was a very good player and
became a very successful account. With those
kingpins, and we had (Gerry) Teeple, and Brian
McCullough, but we were still missing a lot of
players.”

Orval Tessier was a success at every level he coached at. Coaching the 1971-1972
Cornwall Royals to a Memorial Cup, however, holds a special place in his heart.

Photo by Terry Tinkess

Dan Lupinette, Al Sims, Dave Johnson,
John Wensink, Gerry Teeple, are just a few of
the names that together found a way to spell
success.

“They came together as tight a group as I’ve
ever seen,” says Tessier. “And I wasn’t tough,
I’ll tell you that. I never checked a curfew all
year. We knew the boys were going out, and all
that. Hey, I played junior…” I was tough during
the practices and during that games, but other
than that…”
Coaching a team with a small budget that
played in a small arena was an experience
Tessier says he will never forget. He speaks of
going to pick up expense money for a road trip
to Quebec City and being handed a box of egg
sandwiches for the players to eat on the way
home. “If we were going to Quebec City, we
left here at 2:00 p.m., so they ate at 1:00 p.m.
and they are going to eat again at 11:00 p.m.
and we’ve each got an egg sandwich?

“I said, ‘No thank you, you keep the egg
sandwiches, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket,’
and on the way back we stopped in Louisville,
they had a nice barbeque restaurant, and we
got them all half-chickens. We settled all that
though.”

The Water Street Arena (later the Si Miller)
was also the talk of the league. “The 1,300 seats
and the 600 standing, some of the executive of
the Quebec league came here and they couldn’t
believe it,” says Tessier. “We had to put them
upstairs near the front of the arena. There were
no seats, and the seats there were weren’t that
good either. I was standing behind the bench
and I was getting advise from the people right
behind me!”
The year after winning the Memorial Cup
with Cornwall, Tessier had to make a decision.
Molson’s let him know that if he were to
continue coaching, he wouldn’t be able to work
with them because of Liquor Control Board
of Ontario (LCBO) regulations. With this in
mind Tessier approached the team, agreeing
to coach the team if they would pay him the
same amount as his job with Molson’s would
pay. They refused, and as a result Tessier turned
down offers from the Quebec Nordiques of the
ﬂedgling World Hockey Association (WHA)
and a number of other junior teams to accept the
reigns of the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec
junior league.
“Looking at the situation in Quebec, playing
in front of 10,000 people every night, people

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Adams trophy as coach of the year.
“They wanted to make a change, and if they
wanted to let me go, they could let me go, but
they would still have to pay me,” says Tessier.
“Charlotte and I went to Florida. We could
watch the games there and have a few cold
ones.”
“I was more disappointed then mad,” adds
Tessier. “I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I
said to myself the ﬁrst thing I’m going to do is
shut my mouth. They have a right to ﬁre you
and I have to accept that. I sat there for four
days by myself, and then I called Charlotte and
told her we were going to Fort Lauderdale and
that I had a nice place for us. We stayed there a
couple months and then came back. She asked
me what I wanted to do and I told her nothing,
at least not next year. I didn’t want to coach any
more.

had money coming out their ears, I listened to
them,” says Tessier. “I went to Montreal and
they offered me a three-year contract at a very,
very good salary and supplied us with a house.
They also paid all the expenses for my wife to
go back and forth and for the kids in school.

“The kids had to go to a bilingual school, and
there aren’t too many of them in Quebec, but
there was one in St. Foy and they arranged for
them to get there an back each day as well, so
I signed.”
One thing that bafﬂes Tessier about the
situation was how the team treated his
replacement, who was also one of his best
friends in the league.

to go,” says Tessier. “I’ve got some integrity.
I said that he was an excellent coach, that he
was a good friend of mine, and I didn’t want to
cost him his job.” As a result, Racette remained
behind the bench while Tessier provided input
from a different perspective.
Tessier ﬁnally left Cornwall to coach in
Chicoutimi, then moved on to Kitchener of the
Ontario league, where he had played his junior
hockey. The team went from a tenth-place ﬁnish
to a “rebuilding” season with 11-seventeen
year olds and made it to the Memorial Cup
ﬁnal, where he was defeated, ironically, by the
Cornwall Royals.

“They went after Ron Racette, and they
offered him more money than they offered me,”
says Tessier. “He signed for the same money
that I was hoping to get.”

Tessier’s next stop was with New Brunswick
in the American League and he won a
championship in his ﬁrst year. Next stop: The
National Hockey League and the Chicago
Black Hawks.

“I said I wouldn’t take it if Ron Racette had

In his second and third years with the Hawks,
the team suffered through a rash of injuries, and
eventually management decided they needed to
make a change. Fortunately for Tessier, they
had signed him to an extension following his
ﬁrst year, a season in which he won the Jack

Tessier stayed in Quebec City one year and led
the Remparts to a Quebec league championship
and a Memorial Cup appearance, but his
family really wanted to go home. Through
the grapevine Tessier learned that the Royals
management wanted to talk with him, and the
conversation eventually led to a job offer, one
that Tessier says he would only accept on one
condition.

“When I got to Chicago the ﬁrst year, they
had ﬁnished pretty near last,” says Tessier.
“They only had 64 points and we went from 64
to 104 in the ﬁrst year.

Does he have any regrets? Tessier says not.
“I would never change a second of it, never,
never, never. I’m perfectly happy in what I’ve
accomplished.”
Tessier says his greatest memories are of his
ﬁrst season in the NHL, but he holds a very
special place in his heart for the 1972 Memorial
Cup Cornwall Royals. There isn’t a player or
person involved with the team that Tessier can’t
ﬁnd a kind word for.
“Every night I coached them, I thought
to myself, ‘This isn’t real,’ says Tessier.
“Somebody is going to beat us or somebody is
going to show us. Every night to me, and I had
never really coached before, just at St. Lawrence
College, I never knew what to expect. Every
night though, you could see that our team was
there, that it was ready. They didn’t care if they
played on the road, or if they played here, they
were that kind of team.
“We had a couple guys that could really ﬁght,
they weren’t (John) Wensink, but they could
really ﬁght. When we got on the road, they
helped us out a bit. These kids had discipline,
it was unbelievable. But if we ran into trouble,
we always had Richard (Richard Brodeur,
who went on to play goal with the Vancouver
Canucks.) He won that Memorial Cup for us.”
“If I had never coached the Royals that year,
I would have never coached any of the places
I went after. That year, and my ﬁrst year in the
NHL, that is what you dream of. It was a thrill,
it was really a thrill.”

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Pony division, who followed
up Arsenault with a silver in C
Equitation, and also qualiﬁed for
the national ﬁnals held at the Royal
Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.
Eve Tremblay brought in a gold
medal in the Short Stirrup division,
and Brianna Scheffer ﬁnished on top
with a gold medal to wrap up her
season in the Modiﬁed Child/Adult
division, as well as a fourth in B
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Age: 7
School: St-Anne’s
Favourite Sport: Hockey
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Their natural abilities have made these two a force to be reckoned with
on any team they play, whether it’s Minor Soccer, Lacrosse, Hockey or
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position for the next play. Both boys are well rounded team players who
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Champs Eastside Boxing:
Champions Inside and Outside the Ring
By Terry Tinkess
Walking into Champs Eastside
Boxing club at 223 Jarvis St. feels
like stepping back in time. There
is no mistaking the purpose of
this place: it is the development
of the individual, both mentally
and physically, through hard work.
There are no bright lights or wild
colours because the purpose is not
to amuse the eye or entertain. This
is serious business, as the building
of self-conﬁdence should be. The
sweat on the brow is just a symptom
of the work that is going on within
the individual.
According to Jorge Luis, the
man behind Champs, there is a
lot of interest in what the club can
provide, and they have had success
with both provincial and national
champs to their credit. He says
that while interest has been high,
most people aren’t that interested in
boxing for competitive reasons. “It’s
good exercise and it is economical,
I see that,” says Luis, “But I see a
lot of kids that don’t know about
the gym, and the whole idea was to
provide a gym and access to a sport
that wasn’t readily available to the
average kid.”
Champs has been at their current
location since about 2001. Prior to
that Luis offered boxing at Paradise
Fitness, something he undertook in
1998.
For Luis, it is a labour of love as
much as anything. The facility is
Spartan, but costs are also very low.
According to Luis, he didn’t want to
see cost as a reason for someone not
becoming a member.
“We’re a non-proﬁt club. We try to

Maximus (Max) Bourgon, 9 shows
a lot of promise, according to
Jorge Luis, who runs the boxing
club.

Photo by Terry Tinkess

keep out fees cheap and affordable,”
says Luis. “All the money we take
in goes to replace some of the gear
and to cover our expenses if we take
our kids to shows and events, things
like gas and hotels.
“A kid comes here, it costs him
$30 a month as a competitor and
that covers his travel costs and
everything. Not many sports offer
that.”
Part of the problem in attracting
new members, according to Luis, is
that there are still many people who
don’t understand how boxing can
help a person develop. “People don’t
understand that boxing is as much
mental as it is physical and there
are a lot of misconceptions as well,”
says Luis. “They think that boxing
teaches kids how to ﬁght, which it
does, but in a controlled, structured
environment. They become less
violent, not more violent.

Once they know they can defend
themselves and they have that selfconﬁdence, they don’t need to prove
it at school. It is about speed, balance,
technique, smarts and discipline and
kids build that here.
Luis says that boxing has helped
some kids; some kids have turned
their life around. He also says that
the adult members of the club, both
men and women, have beneﬁted
as well. It might be a case of just
feeling better about themselves
through healthier living, or even, as
one past member discovered, being
able to fend off a sexual assault.
The program teaches you to trust
yourself, to rely on your ability and
helps you develop the physical tools
to make that happen.
As much as he would like to, Luis
knows he can’t help everyone. It
has to be within them. If it is there,
Champs will bring it out of them.
One young member who Luis
sees promise in is Maximus (Max)
Bourgon, 9, who has been coming
to Champs for about the past 18
months. According to his father,
Robert, boxing has helped Max live
a healthier lifestyle, but it has also
encouraged him to become more
involved and focused in school.
While Max doesn’t disagree, he
says it is the physical part he likes.
“I like to box in the ring and hit
people,” says Max, a man of few
words. He says that boxing has
made him more conﬁdent because
he knows he can protect himself. He
doesn’t have to worry about being
bullied at school.
When asked what he would ask
for if he could have one thing for his
club, Luis, thinks carefully, and then

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gives a two-part response. “Every
boxing coach that teaches the sport
with passion does so wanting to
train a world champion. Having a
world champion who came out of
your club is your dream.
But I would also like more boxers
and to be able to change a life or two
along the way. When I see a kid go
over the wall, that’s my kick, that’s
my thrill.”
According to Luis, before you
become a champion, you have to
be a contender and a contender is
that guy who is willing to pay the
price to take himself as far as his
mind and body and heart and soul
will allow. “If they do that, and even
if they don’t become a champion in
the ring, if they apply that to their
life, they are going to become a
champion in life.
“Boxing clubs are a place of
dreams,” adds Luis. “It is a sport
that takes kids that might be too
small or unskilled for another sport,
and allows them to go as far as their
body and their mind can take them.
Which is what Jorge Luis strives
for: to help anyone willing to try and
ﬁnd the strength within themselves
to be able to go the distance.

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Bantam “B” Typhoons Are Raising The Bar
When It Comes To Girls’ Hockey

lot of wear and tear, but the team
Numbers are important for has taken it in stride.
“The girls have really improved,”
any competitive team, and the
Cornwall Girls Hockey Association said Head Coach Alain Seguin.
(CGHA) Bantam “B” Typhoons “The defense is learning to close
are no exception. The mid-season the gap and get the puck out our
standings say it all. The team is end more. The offense players are
sitting in a strong three-way tie for having more shots on net.”
The coaching staff for the Bantam
second, only two points from the
“B” girls has been key for the team.
top spot, in a division of eight.
The team is part of the Ottawa Seguin is assisted by coaches Marc
District
Women’s
Hockey Seguin, Richard van Ettinger, and
Association (ODWHA). That being Ray Martel.
By Tammy Larin

the case, the team travels for games
sometimes twice a week to arenas as
far as Smiths Falls, which is about
an hour and a half drive. Some
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Team mate and friend Emma-Lee
Martel also has experience on the
ice. Martel agreed that hockey is
a fun game to play. “I like playing
with my friends on the team and
also meeting new ones.” She said.

the district will start in February for
a spot in the championship league
ﬁnals which will take place around
the beginning of March. The team
will then still have their work cut
out for them since play downs will
also be taking place during that
period. Play downs determine the
top team or two that will represent
in their division at the Provincial
Championships to be held in Ottawa
in April.

The team has already participated
in four tournaments this season,
Girls’ hockey has been expanding
with the girls earning gold or silver
throughout the years, and currently
Alain Seguin was not hesitant medals in each. The team travelled
more than seventy thousand girls
to mention that the goaltending by to Oshawa, Whitby, and Jay Peak,
are playing the game across Canada.
Emily Tourangeau and Kortney New York for tournaments.
As for the remainder of the The Cornwall Girls Hockey
Seguin has been “nothing less than
season, the team has a few more Association is just one organization
amazing.”
of many who work hard to develop
Tourangeau
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the game.
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competitiveness and the challenge
of being a competitive goalie,” said
Tourangeau.

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Hanging up the skates after a life
spent in hockey is often easier said
than done. For some, like Cornwall’s
own Allan Charbonneau, 26, it’s not
even worth considering. “I wanted
to get back into hockey somehow,”
said Charbonneau “Going through
24 years of hockey, doing the same
stuff year in and year out, it comes
as a bit of a shock to not have that.”
When an opportunity to join
the Central League’s defending
champion Nepean Raiders presented
itself a month before the regular
season, he jumped at it.
“It was always his focus to
continue on in hockey,” said Harold
McBride, Charbonneau’s long-time
coach at then “AA” (there was no
“AAA”) Seaway Valley and a long
time scout for the Jr. ”A” Cornwall
Colts. For six years of Charbonneau’s
minor hockey career, he shored up
the back end on the same team with
McBride’s son Brock. McBride
is also the one person, outside his
father, that Charbonneau credits with
his advancement in hockey. “He saw
the ice very well,” said McBride of
his former player, “I wouldn’t say
he was the type to blow the puck
by anybody on a power play but he
contributed a lot through assists.
So more of a smart, (defensive)
playmaking defenseman.”
Drafted into the CJHL by the
Gloucester Rangers, Charbonneau
took a year in Jr. B with the
Akwesasne Wolves before joining
the Rangers as a 17 year old. The
then 6’3”, 195 pounder (large by
CJHL standards) went on to have
a very productive career shutting
down opposing offenses as a lunchpail style defenseman for two years
in Gloucester before getting traded

For Allan Charbonneau, the thought of not having hockey as part of his
life was something not even worth considering.

Photo by Vincent Cama

to Brockville where he would close
out his Jr. “A” career. All the while
he kept his grades up and was good
enough both on and off the ice to earn
a scholarship from NCAA Division
III SUNY-Geneseo in upstate NY.
“When we (the coaches) started
asking the young players what they
wanted to do with their hockey
career,” said McBride “Allan was
very quick to say ‘I want to get
schooling out of hockey’.” Years
later, that’s just what he got. Though
his time on the ice in Geneseo
was limited by a series of injuries,
Charbonneau
graduated
from
SUNY with a degree in Business
Administration in 2011. He was

accepted into graduate studies but
the game he loved kept calling.
When Nepean’s former assistant
coach Taurean “Toe” White stepped
down before the start of the 2012
season to take the head position with
the Major Midget Eastern Ontario
Wild, White thought his friend Allan
would be perfect to take over. White
put Nepean head coach Peter Goulet
in touch with Charbonneau who was
heading up the Alexandria Jr. “B”
Glens at the time. “It was all bonus,”
said Goulet of the ﬁrst impression
his new assistant made. “He knows
the game, he played in our league,
we were looking for a defensive
coach – he played defense, I liked

his thoughts on the game, he wants
to learn and he’s willing to learn…
it all worked out.”
Charbonneau
balances
his
coaching responsibilities with
working full time in the University
of Ottawa’s Admissions Department
and (again with the hockey) acting as
an advisor as part of the Endeavour
Sports Group, a consulting ﬁrm that
helps talented young hockey players
and their families navigate the oftenwild world of elite hockey.
So
far,
hockey’s
taken
Charbonneau a long way. “I can
contribute to the game of hockey
anything that I do in life now,”
citing the discipline and lasting
relationships that have been pleasant
corollaries to his passion for the
game.
Former coach McBride was
not surprised to see Charbonneau
climbing the coaching ranks so
quickly. “That’s a very good
indication of where he was
throughout hockey…he’s achieved
whatever he’s wanted to achieve.”
Charbonneau’s advice for young
players today is simple. “The most
important thing is to play at the
highest level that you can and at the
end of the day that you’re having
fun doing it and coming to the rink
with a smile on your face. That’s
the biggest thing you can go on as a
hockey player.”
It’s safe to say that this is not the
end of the line for Charbonneau.
He’s still young, the game is still
fun and he’s brought to Nepean the
same smart, hard-working style as
a coach that characterized his game
on and off the ice. But even if this
is the highest level of coaching he
does, if he keeps taking his own
advice, he’ll be a success by any
standard.

As they continue to work towards
implementing a long-term athlete
development
philosophy
into
Skate Canada programming, the
excitement among the local skating
community continues to grow.

According to Barbara Mitschke,
treasurer of Skate Cornwall, changes
in the programming will make it
more appealing to a larger number
of athletes. “The new and improved
program has more emphasis on speed
and ﬂexibility, earlier introduction of
edges, turns and stroking basics and
emphasis on skill progression and
repetition,” says Mitschke, “which
will provide the opportunity to reach
all prospective clientele including
hockey, ringette and speed skaters
in our community who are looking
for a quality generic learn-to-skate
program.”
Mitschke is quite excited about
the changes. “With colorful teaching
aids, signage, circuits and station
rotation to teach skills, the Fast Track
to explore stride, the Fun Zone and
upbeat music, there is a great deal
more movement, action and fun!”
Skate Cornwall currently has six
professional coaches who are all
certiﬁed in the National Coaching
Certiﬁcation program (NCCP).
They also operate with 11 volunteer
members who hold positions on their
board of directors and always require
multiple volunteers for competitions,
ice shows as well as test days to
guarantee the club continues to run
smoothly. They have 59 skaters
enrolled in the CanSkate and Parent
& Tot programs combined so far this
year. There are 19 full and part-time
skaters in the STARSkate program
and in August of this past summer

Families enjoy quality time together in the Parent & Tot program with
Skate Cornwall.
Photo by Barbara Mitschke

they held a Power Skating program clubs proudest moments as being
for two weeks to which they had 37 the success of skater, Dana Grant.
participants.
“Dana started skating at the
Skate Cornwall has been in age of three and competed his
operation for just over 50 years and way up to the Senior level in Ice
are proud members of Skate Canada, Dance at the Canadian Figure Briar Yedema practices her moves.
which is the largest ﬁgure skating Skating Championships and went
Photo by Barbara Mitschke
governing body in the world. They on to compete in International
are a non-proﬁt organization that has Competitions in Germany and
always been dedicated to providing Finland,” says Mitschke. “His
those in the Cornwall area with the skating took him too many different
opportunity to participate in skating competitions
and
appearances
throughout their lifetime providing through the years. On Aug 28,
an excellent opportunity for fun, 2004, Dana was inducted to the
ﬁtness and achievement combined. Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame.”
The club offers a variety of Grant is currently their dance coach
programs including CanSkate, and partner for Skate Cornwall.”
Parent & Tot, CanPowerSkate –
Programming runs from September
Pre-Power, CanPowerSkate, and through to March each year. Skaters
StarSkate. They hold an ice show are welcome to seek out information,
every two years. In March of 2012 drop by, and join throughout the
they held their 50th Anniversary ice
year. They are always looking for
show. Their next show will be held
volunteers and are currently in
in March of 2014.
need of some equipment (wireless
Skaters also participate in microphone, sound mixer, ofﬁce
both interclub and invitational furniture as well as a photocopier.)
competitions
throughout
the It’s never too late to sign up or to
year. This year, they will have drop by and lend a hand. For more
competitions in Prescott on January information or for information
26 and 27, 2013 as well as in Smiths on registration forms and costs,
Falls on February 23, 2013.
please visit their website at www.
Makenzie Mitschke struts her stuff.
Mitschke describes one of the skatecanada.ca/skatecornwall
Photo by Barbara Mitschke

“I was moving in and my neighbor
came over to me and he said,
‘You’re Mr. Brisson aren’t you,
from the Optimist Club? I played
minor football with you people.’
You don’t often see a lot of that, but
of course, I’m 86 years old…”

Leo Brisson still enjoys looking back at documents and clippings from his time with Optimist Minor Football.

“There were so many people,”
he continues, “There were the
McLeod boys, I think even the
Lumley boys. Dr. Norm Roy, as
soon as he graduated he became
involved with us as a coach, and
he supplied mouthguards to all the
players and he gave free accidental
dental for them for the ﬁrst year.
He was quite involved. And of
course Dr. McLeod would come to
the games and he would look after
any injuries”

Brisson remembers another
time when one of the teams went
involved in it. It was just a great, looking forward to the return of to a Thanksgiving tournament
the CFL to Ottawa, and remembers in Kitchener when Cornwall’s
great, great experience.”
Minor football was sort of a how a former Ottawa Rough Rider bilingual nature saved the day.
feeder for the high school football contributed to the minor football
“They were losing,” says Brisson,
system and when it collapsed, program.
“and somebody by the name of
minor football suffered as well.
“Moe Racine helped us out,” Disotell was our quarterback. He
Photo by Vincent Cama

By Terry Tinkess

Football is enjoying a renaissance
of sorts in the City of Cornwall, but
there was a time, not all that long
ago when another group made it
possible for local youth to enjoy
that “other” Canadian game. The
As he talks, the names start
Optimist Club was the group, but ﬂooding back for Brisson. “There
Leo Brisson was the man who made were a lot of people,” he says, “Jack
it work.
Entwistle, Huey McAlear, Hurley
Brisson was involved in Optimist McDougall, all kinds of names. It
minor football for 15 years. “ I was is quite a list.”
the president, the secretary, a little
bit of everything. It was the ﬁrst job
I had when I joined the Optimist
Club. As soon as I joined they said
“Have we got a job for you.”
Brisson says he has so many
pleasant memories of his time with
Optimist minor football. “There
are so many,” says Brisson. “There
was all the activity with the youths
and the Optimists and the coaches
and referees and everyone that was

says Brisson. “He sponsored our
goalposts and was quite instrumental
in getting the building that is still
in use at the southwest corner of
the Bob Turner Centre. That was
a maintenance building. We got
together with Si Miller (former
head of parks and recreation) and
city council and they handed it over
to us and we renovated it and it
became our clubhouse.”

As sad as it was to see football
disappear, Brisson says it was
equally great to see it make
reappearance. “It was nice to see
it come back. We used to have
120-130 kids in three divisions:
Perhaps one of the best things of
intermediate, midget and junior. being involved in minor sports is
There were four teams in each learning years later that people still
division, it was quite competitive.
remember the people who took the
Brisson says he still enjoys time so that the kids would have a
football, but ﬁnds that it has chance to play. That happened to
become too commercial. He is Brisson about ten years ago when

said, “We’ll ﬁx them,” and started
calling the signals in French. We
ended up winning the game.”

Brisson was awarded the
“Pigskin” award, as a builder.
“Charlie Nicholson, he was one
too,” says Brisson. “Charlie
Nicholson and Farran Miller were
the two who got me involved.”

Brisson has long since retired
from active duty with the Optimist
Club (“There comes a point when
you’re not physically able to
contribute,”) but looks back on his
years of volunteerism as time well
spent. He may never realize just
how important his efforts were and
how much they were appreciated.

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Anytime Fitness is Putting the Personal into
Personal Training
By H. Armstrong

Anytime Fitness takes pride in
being a personal gym. The gym,
which opened its doors in Cornwall
in December 2011, is the only
franchise gym in Cornwall.
The franchise has a reciprocity
rule, meaning that once you are a
member of one, you get access to
any of the almost 2000 Anytime
Fitness locations worldwide. Matt
O’Shaughnessy Manager of the
Anytime Fitness at 1360 Second St.
East says that makes it easy, even if
you travel, to work out. “So literally
there are no excuses, no matter where
you go there’s generally an Anytime
Fitness station somewhere,” says
O’Shaughnessy.
The adult-only gym has a
membership cap of 500 members.
Although the gym is just about at
capacity, it is still a “personal” place.
“I know everybody by name, I know
their story,” says O’Shaughnessy.
It is the atmosphere that makes
Anytime Fitness very different from
the other gyms. The aim at the gym
is to make everybody comfortable,
whether they’re a serious athlete,
or a regular, everyday sedentary
worker. The serious athlete group
includes The Cornwall Colts, who
use Anytime Fitness Cornwall as
their home gym.

says O’Shaughnessy. “We have
yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, spinning
classes, Zumba classes, any class
you can think of functionally
we have on a 100 inch screen.”
Group classes, which are available
with a live trainer, are free for the
membership group.

Security at the gym is through
a pass key system that also uses a
facial recognition. It is monitored
by a security company.
Kirk Tyo, Director of Personal
Training says people are the
favourite part of his job. “You do it
because it gives you a bit of a sense
of being a helper. It’s nice to help
people,” says Tyo.
“We try to keep our intimidation
levels as low as possible,” adds
Tyo, in explaining the effort to help
members feel comfortable in their
surroundings. “We don’t allow
anyone to wear cut-off sleeves in
here. The women are not allowed to
show their bellies.”
The goal of Anytime Fitness
is people, not numbers. “This
franchise is not about numbers,”
says O’Shaughnessy. “Everybody
has a name, everybody has a face,
and everybody has a story. This is a
little family we have going on here.

“We want members for life. We
don’t want them for a short amount
An innovative feature of Anytime of time.”
Fitness is Fitness on Request.
Fitness on Request is in a room that
Kirk Tyo Director of Personal
Training, putting prospective
has all of the needed equipment
trainer Derek Schroeder through
and is private. “24 hours a day you
his paces.
have access to any functional class,”

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More than halfway through the CCHL season and no team has taken ﬁrm hold of the top spot in the league.
That’s good news f or the Colts, who hang on to third place in the Robinson Division. At the time of this report
they were sitting one point behind the Carleton Place Canadians and eight points back of ﬁrst-place Smiths
Falls Bears, so they still have time to improve their position over the remaining 26 games.
One problem that must be addressed is consistency. The Colts began the month by going 6-2 before dropping
ﬁve of their next seven going into mid-December. “When we play to our ability, we know we can beat any
team in the league,” said forward Sean King “It’s a matter of just doing the little things we’ve been taught.”
Injuries have become an issue as well with up to nine regulars out during November. As of this writing, at
least six remained on the injury list, including leading goal scorer Marly Quince. Considering that, the Colts
are fortunate to be where they are in the standings. “We’re still in the hunt,” said assistant GM Kenton Spink.
“If we can get healthy and peak at the right time, we have a good shot.”
The Colts are not lacking talent and the league conﬁrmed as much when it released the all-star roster for the
upcoming Central Canada Cup Challenge to be held Dec. 27-29 in Wellington, Ontario. Defensemen Carl
Belizario and Stephen Johnson along with forwards Michael Pontarelli, Marly Quince and Mitch Zion will
be representing Cornwall for the Robinson division squad. Coach Ian MacInnis will be leading the Robinson
All-Stars against some of the best Jr. “A” players from Ontario and Quebec.

When you are in your ﬁrst year in the league, and you are challenging for ﬁrst place at mid-season, you must be doing something right. The Cornwall
River Kings are doing a lot of things right, both on and off the ice but they would be well-advised to heed the words of legendary baseball player Leroy
“Satchel” Page, who wisely stated, “Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.”
At the time of this report, the River Kings are in second-place with 21 points, after 16 games, which put them within striking distance of the ﬁrst-place
Saguenay Marquis, who have 26 points in 17 games. In the Ligue Nord-Americaine de Hockey (LNAH), however, parity reigns supreme as Thetford
Mines, in third, is only one point back of Cornwall while Riviere-du-Loup is in fourth place with 19 points and two games in hand over Thetford Mines
and Cornwall.
We should be in for some very good hockey down the stretch, and if the River Kings can play the same style of hockey that they have so far on the
offensive side of the puck while tightening up on defense, Cornwall Hockey fans should be in for a very interesting spring. Playoff hockey is a very
different game, and the LNAH version should be, to say the least, exciting.
Individually, the River Kings are sharing the load. They don’t have a player in the top-ten in terms of points, but Nicolas Corbeil is seventh in goals with
ten and Shawn Collymore is eighth in assists, with 15. Goaltender Loic Lacasse is second with eight wins and third in save percentage with .902.

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Neurofunctional Acupuncture for Sports
Injuries and Performance
This article was written by Dr. Kylie Draper, a chiropractor and neurofunctional acupuncture
Dr. Draper is the co-owner of Cornwall Spine Care Plus+, located at 117 Eleventh Street West, Cornwall, ON.

What is Neurofunctional
Acupuncture?
Neurofunctional
acupuncture
is a relatively new therapy that
has become well known in the
sports-medicine community as
a drug-free treatment of muscle,
joint and nerve dysfunctions and
sports injuries.
This sciencebased approach has been shown to
relieve pain, improve blood ﬂow,
reduce inﬂammation, improved
nerve conduction, reduce muscle
dysfunction and promote the
body’s natural healing responses.
Neurofunctional
acupuncture
differs from traditional Chinese
medicine acupuncture in that the
approach is based on what is known
in western medicine regarding
anatomy, and the neurophysiology
of pain and dysfunction.
The practitioner selects needle
insertion points based on their
extensive knowledge of nerve and
muscle anatomy and will often use
electroacupuncture (attach gentle
electrical stimulation to the needle)
to modulate the nervous system
and normalize the nerve signals
being sent to and from the brain.

The Neurofunctional
Approach
According to Dr. Alejandro
Elorriaga Claraco, MD, the director
of the McMaster University
Medical Acupuncture program,
the neurofunctional approach does
not seek a single hypothetical

source of pain; instead, it
investigates, clinically, the most
common levels of dysfunction
associated with a given pain
problem, namely neurological,
biomechanical,
muscular,
metabolic, and psychoemotional
levels. Clinical examination aims
to determine, among other things,
which muscles are neurologically
inhibited and which are weak due
to atrophy; which tissues have
lost normal texture; which kinetic
chains are not working properly;
and which peripheral nerves have
developed
mechanosensitivity.
Understanding all these aspects
allows the practitioner to design
a truly individualized integrated
neurofunctional treatment plan for
the athlete.

(electroacupuncture)
with
a
mild current that is similar to the
bodies own electrical synapses
which occur during neuronal
communication (action potential).
By stimulating the nerve along
its path or at its motor point the
dysfunctional signals that are often
noted in an injured tissue can be
normalized. Electroacupuncture
has also been shown to stimulate
the nervous system to release
natural chemicals (endorphins &
serotonin) in the muscles, spinal
cord, and brain. These chemicals
can change the experience of pain,
and will trigger the release of other
natural chemicals and hormones,
which inﬂuence the bodies own

Who can beneﬁt
from Neurofunctional
Acupuncture?
Besides being utilized by
Olympic Athletes to optimize
performance
and
prevent/
manage injuries, Neurofunctional
Acupuncture is also commonly
used by recreational athletes and
chronic pain patients. The World
Health Organization recognizes the
use of acupuncture in the treatment
of a wide range of neurological
and musculoskeletal conditions.
Commonly treated conditions
include:

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Insertion of acupuncture needle
into motor point of Palmaris
longus muscle.

Undergoing a coaching change at this time of year is
never a good thing, but the Rebels played well during the ﬁrst

half of the season, so they have a little wiggle room to work
with. The Reb’s are currently in third, one point back of the
Winchester Hawks, and that isn’t a bad place to be. Still, it is
a good time to get things organized and start thinking about
the playoffs. You don’t want to be adjusting to new systems
or philosophies at a time when you should be playing through
instinct and hard work.
The Rebels will be the ﬁnal game of the day on January 5,
at 7:30 p.m. in Gananoque, and their opponent will be South
Grenville. Akwesasne and Alexandria will help the Rebels
ﬁnish off 2012.

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Alexandria Glens

The Glens are one of four teams sitting pretty much in the
middle of the pack in the St. Lawrence Division. The team
from North Glengarry at this writing has 22 points in 28 games
and need to make up some ground, and soon, if they want to
give themselves the best opportunity possible in the playoffs.
They have games against Morrisburg and Char-Lan to wrap
up the month of December, so if they want to move up in the
standings, there is no time like the present.
The Glens will play in the second game of the day at 12:00
noon during the Rideau-St. Lawrence Showcase on January 5,
and their opponent will be Athens. The battle of the “A” teams
should be a good one.

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Morrisburg Lions

It has been a long season for the Lions and their fans. The
team is last in the St. Lawrence Division with the closest team
in the standing, Alexandria, nine points up with a game in hand
as of this report. Still, the Lion’s fan base is a loyal group, and,
as they say, it ain’t over till it’s over. A team that is capable of
a losing streak could turn things around and make it interesting
as we head into the home stretch. Maybe that will happen
at the Rideau-St. Lawrence Conference Showcase, which
takes place on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Gananoque
Recreation Centre. The Lions have the ﬁrst game of the day,
9:30 a.m. versus Westport. It is as good as time as any to catch
someone napping.

Akwesasne Wolves

In the Wolves Den things aren’t too bad. The team is playing
.500 hockey and is sitting in fourth place with 25 points, two
back of Char-Lan and three back of Winchester. They still have
time to move up in the standings and with things as crowded
as they are in the middle of the pack, it will be anyone’s guess
who will end up on top (or at least second, Since Cassleman
with 39 points should be just about impossible to catch.
The Wolves will play Brockville at 5:00 p.m. on January 5
in Gananoque. They ﬁnish off 2012 with a home-and-home
series with Char-Lan and a game with Morrisburg.

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